Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statuesquely with an impressive theme, closed at week's end. The play told of the difficulties encountered by 18th century Jesuits who created a kind of Utopia in Paraguay. Spain, whose sovereignty they menaced, the Jesuits could defy; but when their own superiors (fearful of what might happen to the order as a whole) commanded them to submit, they faced a bitter ordeal...
...even so, mistakes happen. Bauer, explaining in a lecture that the Russian youth's mind was sharp but lacking in access to information, compared it to a water pump filled with air, which cries for water. The next day's headlines however, read, "Says Mind of Soviet Youth Like Vacuum...
...fill the vacancy in the Chief Justiceship by a recess appointment, Attorney General Browell is, of course, relying on the broad image of Article II, section 2, of the Constitution, applicable to federal offices generally, that "The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may "happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session...
...theme song if it reached the Lucky Strike top seven? "Certainly," snapped a Lucky executive. "We couldn't possibly not play it. Our whole reputation is involved." Is the tune . likely to make it yet? "I don't know. We've seen some funny things happen...
...reason is that Chapin is at his best painting not notables, but the unknowns who happen to move him. His obvious purpose is to make each of his subjects more than a mere personality on canvas; he tries to express ways and qualities of life. For example, Chapin's Ruby Green Singing (opposite) tries to portray "the beauty of Negro music and the Negro people." The grandeur of this idea belies the surface simplicity of the painting. Whether or not the picture communicates as much as Chapin hoped it would, it does find a responsive chord in a great...